THE GOREY DETAILS

Composer: Peter Matz
Lyricist: Edward Gorey

Opened: October 16, 2000 and closed on December 10, 2000 at the Century Center For The Performing Arts, N.Y.C.
Performances:

Note: An earlier version of this show debuted at the Provincetown Reporatory Theatre in 1999 under the title AMPHORAGOREY. While no commercial recordings of Matz's score appear to exist, several of the Gorey stories that were dramatized in this show have been musicalized by others as noted below.

The Disrespectful Summons:

1. The Wire Tapper, Vol. 7 [Wire Magazine], CD/WIRECD007 (Julie Tippetts) (music by Max Nagl)


The Insect God:

1. Hapless Child and Other Inscrutable Stories, Virgin 4 (Michael Mantler) [reissued as CD/ECM 831828] (music credited to Michael Mantler)
2. The Insect God, CD/C/Z CZ-047A (Monks Of Doom) (music credited to Monks Of Doom)


Q.R.V. (aka "QRV"):

1. The Gorey End, CD/EMI 557513 (The Tiger Lillies with The Kronos Quartet) (music by Martyn Jacques)


The Weeping Chandelier:

1. The Gorey End, CD/EMI 557513 (The Tiger Lillies with The Kronos Quartet) (music by Martyn Jacques)

Unrecorded Numbers (incomplete):

The Admonitory Hippopotamus
The Blue Aspic
The Deranged Cousins
The Frozen Man
The Inanimate Tragedy
The Nursery Frieze
The Object Lesson
The Unknown Vegetable
The Woeful Waking
The Wuggly Ump